Utilisée plusieurs centaines de milliers de fois chaque année en France, fréquemment évoquée dans les médias dans le cadre des violences interpersonnelles, l'incapacité totale de travail est cependant rarement comprise. Son utilisation, également, mérite d'être améliorée, avant même d'envisager une réforme de cet outil.
Le rapport « À vif », remis le 25 novembre 2025 au ministre de la justice par deux hauts magistrats, se propose de mieux agir et d'humaniser la justice face aux violences (…)

“In these notes, we address South America, where the complexity of societies, scandalous socioeconomic inequality, the presence of a so-called “middle” economy with its own influence in the region (Brazil), a tradition of struggle and organization on the left, and governments less subservient than the liberal right (such as those of Colombia, Brazil, and Uruguay), imperialist interventionism faces more obstacles and has to moderate its attacks. In light of important electoral processes and (…)

Andrea Ferrario reads a month's output from the activist aggregator LaborInfo — investigations, reportage and data from across the Chinese press, including a 'Marxist' labour-orientated publication — and proposes a composite portrait of work in China in 2026. His argument is that disparate crises, scattered across sectors, generations and regions, share one structural root: the systematic vulnerability of the Chinese worker, and the precision with which the cost of every transformation is (…)

Dave Kellaway responds to Blair's essay
Mandelson and his protégé Morgan McSweeney may be dead politically. Labour Together has even buried its old brand. People are abandoning Labour for the Greens and Reform. But the architect of New Labour is still out there and he has made quite a splash with his 5000 word essay. Every media outlet led on this and he was given more than 10 minutes on the World at One. The mass media is owned by the billionaire class, today Blair was speaking for that (…)

Claudia Turbet-Delof explains the background to the current mass protests rocking Bolivia.
This short piece will tell you what the mainstream media and much of the international press are choosing to not show the world : images of state violence against peaceful marches of campesinos, miners, teachers, older people and Indigenous communities demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz.
Their demands respond to the deep economic crisis and attacks on constitutional rights the (…)